Iam beginning to believe we are not being led by the Very Best People. From Politico :

But amid the cocktail-hour din, [Scott] Bessent lashed out at [Bill] Pulte in an expletive-laden diatribe. The Treasury secretary had heard from several people that the Federal Housing Finance Agency director had been badmouthing him to Trump, a person close to him said. He wasn’t about to engage in chit-chat as if nothing was amiss. “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.”

And Bessent is supposed to be the calm hand at the wheel of this big ship of fools. ( Politico seems to buy this malarkey still. After breaking the news of the near-brawl, it ran a beat-sweetener about Bessent later in the day.) Still,

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